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Etymology

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From seat +‎ -less.

Adjective

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seatless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a seat.
    • August 17, 1890, George Bernard Shaw, letter to William Archer
      We were much disheartened when we arrived and found ourselves in the middle of a lamenting, seatless, lodgingless horde of English and American trippers []
    • 1970, William Furber, Make Love, Not Water, page 141:
      My companions rose one by one and emptied their nocturnal accumulations of urine into the seatless toilet.
    • 2009 January 30, “Call the by-election”, in Toronto Star[1]:
      Three weeks ago today, Progressive Conservative MPP Laurie Scott announced that she was resigning her seat [] to make way for her seatless party leader, John Tory.

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